PLATON — I am staying at the Hotel Metropol, a whimsical sand-colored monument to pre-revolutionary art nouveau. Built during the time of Czar Nicholas II, it later became the Second House of the Soviets after the Bolsheviks took over in 1917. In the restaurant, Lenin would harangue …

Call Me Ed: A Day With Edward Snowden — I was in a Russian hotel room, waiting for the biggest photo shoot of my life. My suite's blackout curtains were drawn, the better to conceal the several hundred thousand dollars worth of high-powered lighting and gear we had brought with us.

Robin Williams and the Pop Culture Media — RUSH: This is Mark in Des Plaines, Illinois. Welcome to the program. Hi. — CALLER: Hi, Rush. You are such a great guy. I have a question for you about the news about Robin Williams — RUSH: Before you get to that.

Hillary Clinton not comfortable in her own skin — Hillary Clinton walks through a paneled doorway and onto the set of “The Colbert Report.” A grin splits her face. She puts her arms out and rocks them up and down as if she were a mechanical toy. — Stephen Colbert is stunned. Shocked.

It's the Loyalty, Stupid — WASHINGTON — I talked to Robin Williams once, about breasts. — In 1993, when he played a prim British nanny in “Mrs. Doubtfire,” I went to interview him at his Pacific Heights house. — “It's great to be this blue-mouthed old lady hitting on somebody,” …

Jesse Jackson: There's a ‘Ferguson’ near you — Look around you. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice. — Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American male in suburban Ferguson, Missouri, who had just graduated from high school and planned to start college …

Who rules America? — A shattering new study by two political science professors has found that ordinary Americans have virtually no impact whatsoever on the making of national policy in our country. The analysts found that rich individuals and business-controlled interest groups largely shape policy outcomes in the United States.

Hollywood tries to save Senate for Dems — Hollywood is pouring money into the midterm elections, with A-listers such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Barbra Streisand all coughing up blockbuster bucks. — The donations are largely aimed at keeping the Senate in Democratic hands.

Defense Secretary: ‘The World is Exploding All Over’ — Fresh off a trip to India and Australia, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel addressed a group of Marines in San Diego, California Tuesday, and may have delivered a line that will show up in Republican campaign ads this election cycle.

What Would Happen If Someone Got Ebola in America? — A secondary infection in the U.S. is highly unlikely. But here's how the healthcare system would respond if there was one. — Let's get one thing straight: You are not going to get Ebola. Donald Trump is not going to get Ebola.

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